Imported, craft brews dominate growth

摘要

When it comes to the beer segment, more consumers are spending their dollars on imported and craft beers. The top imported beer, Corona Extra, a brand of Chicago-based Crown Imports LLC, netted sales of $1.3 billion, up 7.4 percent from last year, while Boston Beer Co.'s Samuel Adams reached sales of $377 million, up 6.2 percent from a year ago, in convenience stores and multi-outlets for the 52 weeks ending May 17, according to Information Resources Inc. (IRI), Chicago. In domestics, Leuven, Belgium-based Anheuser-Busch InBev's (AB InBev) Bud Light brand, the No. 1 domestic beer, recorded sales of $6 million, a 1.1 percent increase over last year, IRI data shows.